Elderly people get up in the morning feet are not swollen in the afternoon, may be due to physiological factors, may also be due to pathologic factors such as poor vascular elasticity, right heart failure and other causes.
1. Physiological factors: the afternoon time the elderly sedentary standing, poor blood circulation, often swollen legs and feet performance, sleep at night when the body lying down, conducive to blood return, swollen legs and feet can be relieved. Weekdays should avoid sitting and standing for a long time, resting legs and feet cushion high, promote blood and lymphatic return, can reduce swelling.
2. Pathological factors:
(1) poor elasticity of blood vessels: the elderly do not have much activity in the morning, and the activity increases in the afternoon, due to the poor elasticity of blood vessels, resulting in the blood not returning in time, there will also be no swelling in the morning and swelling in the afternoon.
(2) Right heart failure: right heart failure will appear heart ejection obstacle, not enough to provide the body’s need for cardiac output, resulting in blood flow abnormalities and thus the occurrence of the body circulation stagnation, resulting in edema.
Wake up in the morning because after the night rest, conducive to the return of blood to the lower limbs. In the afternoon, due to the increased activity of the elderly, the ejection function of the heart is impaired, resulting in abnormal blood return to the lower extremities, resulting in leg edema.
It is recommended to go to the hospital immediately when the above symptoms occur, and exercise moderately during the day to enhance cardiopulmonary function.